Job overview

Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital (RMCH) is the largest tertiary Paediatric Hospital in the UK.  The successful candidate would be joining a department of 42 Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetists delivering sessions across RMCH, The Christie Hospital (the largest single site cancer centre in Europe, which includes anaesthetic services for the proton beam therapy centre), Trafford Hospital and  Wythenshawe hospital.

The department provides anaesthesia for a wide range of paediatric surgical specialities including neurosurgery, complex airway, hyperinsulinism, palatofacial surgery, burn injury, paediatric urology including bladder exstrophy, renal transplant surgery and neonatal surgery.

The post attracts 10 PAs . The job plan may include sessions at any of the hospitals mentioned above (RMCH, the Christie Hospital, Trafford Hospital and Wythenshawe hospital. Weekend elective work may be required in the future.

Candidates should demonstrate proven experience in Paediatric anaesthetics.

Main duties of the job

The new consultant will provide anaesthesia for the services provided by the hospitals: Vide Infra for contractual commitment. Provision of services, including a 1 in 15 on-call rota, will be shared with other consultant anaesthetists at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital.

The appointee will be contracted for a 10 PA job, made up of 8 direct clinical care PAs and 2 supporting PA for teaching, audit, CME/CPD, mandatory training, clinical governance and other administrative duties.

The job plan is flexible to meet the needs of the service. The job plan January 2023 attached is an example and the exact timings of clinical sessions to be agreed through discussion and agreement with the CSU Clinical Lead dependant on service demands.

The clinical commitment will consist of a variety of surgical specialities and the appointee would be expected to work at RMCH and all its affiliated sites and to cover for colleagues annual, study and sick leave.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

 At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.